History of the Administration of President Lincoln: Including His Speeches, Letters, Addresses, Proclamations, and Messages. With a Preliminary Sketch of His Life |
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... success of such measures , involving to an extent attacks upon Slavery , had not yet come . The question of the Territories came up in many ways . The Wilmot Proviso had made its first appear- ance in the previous session , in the ...
... success of such measures , involving to an extent attacks upon Slavery , had not yet come . The question of the Territories came up in many ways . The Wilmot Proviso had made its first appear- ance in the previous session , in the ...
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... success - the Democrats having the control of the State , which they retained until the conflict arising out of the Nebraska Bill , in 1854 . During the intervening period Mr. Lincoln took no prominent part in politics , but remained a ...
... success - the Democrats having the control of the State , which they retained until the conflict arising out of the Nebraska Bill , in 1854 . During the intervening period Mr. Lincoln took no prominent part in politics , but remained a ...
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... success . The fourth speech , at Charleston , was devoted by Mr. Lincoln to enlarging upon the evidence of a charge previously made by Judge Trumbull upon Douglas of being himself responsible for a clause in the Kansas bill which would ...
... success . The fourth speech , at Charleston , was devoted by Mr. Lincoln to enlarging upon the evidence of a charge previously made by Judge Trumbull upon Douglas of being himself responsible for a clause in the Kansas bill which would ...
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... successful nominee until it was announced , as the result of the third ballot , that Abraham Lincoln , of Illinois , had re- ceived 354 votes and was nominated by the Republican party for the office of President of the United States ...
... successful nominee until it was announced , as the result of the third ballot , that Abraham Lincoln , of Illinois , had re- ceived 354 votes and was nominated by the Republican party for the office of President of the United States ...
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... success of the principles declared by the Convention . Your obliged friend and fellow - citizen , ABRAHAM LINCOLN . HON . GEORGE ASHMUN , President of the Republican Convention . Mr. Lincoln's nomination proved universally accept- able ...
... success of the principles declared by the Convention . Your obliged friend and fellow - citizen , ABRAHAM LINCOLN . HON . GEORGE ASHMUN , President of the Republican Convention . Mr. Lincoln's nomination proved universally accept- able ...
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